Email format

Question

Hi,

    I have an automatic windows service to send out the emails as scheduled. But the email message i have been receiving is appearing in plain text instead of HTML format. Can someone throw me few tips or ideas where i am making a mistake.

thanks 

Answer 1

Thanks for all your responses. But unfortunately i am not sure its still not working. Can you please go through the code below and let me know where i am doing wrong or if it needs any further modification.

private bool MailSend(bool SMS,string EmailFrom, string EmailTo, string EmailSubject, string EmailBody,ref Exception parmExc)

  {

 MailMessage msg=null;

 try

 {

msg = new MailMessage(EmailFrom, EmailTo, EmailSubject, EmailBody);

if (!SMS)

{

msg.IsBodyHtml = true;

}

SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("localhost");

client.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.PickupDirectoryFromIis;

             msg.EmailBody = "http://localhost:3171/WebApplication1/frmResponse.aspx?TraxIterID="+ ds.Tables[0].Rows[i].ItemArray[3].ToString()"";

client.Send(msg);

if (DebugMailSending)

{

StringBuilder sbMailSendDebug = new StringBuilder();

sbMailSendDebug.AppendFormat("EMail Sent => From={0};To={1};Subject={2};Body={3}", EmailFrom, EmailTo, EmailSubject, EmailBody);

DebugMessage(sbMailSendDebug.ToString());

}

parmExc = null;

return true;

 }

 catch (Exception exc1)

 {

parmExc = exc1;

return false;

 }

 finally

 {

DisposeIfNotNull(msg);

 }

  } // end MailSend

Answer 2

hey you have to build HTML mail by setting the IsBodyHTML to true. Here you go:

public void sendmail(string v3, string v2, string v1) //replace the parameter or delete if needed

    {

        string smsg = "Thank you for posting Article on our site, your post is very important for us:<br><br>";

        smsg += "<br><b>Title of Post: </b><br>" + "<a href=" + v1 + ">" + v2 + "</a>";

        smsg += "<br><b>Description of Post: </b><br>" + v3;

        smsg += "<br><br><br><br>";

        smsg += "<b>Administrator</b>";
//in above lines I'm building HTML body for mailing, here you can use any standerd html tags

        MailMessage message = new MailMessage();

        try

        {

            string ToEmailIDToSendEmail = getEmailAddressOfUser(); //i'm just receiving TO email address from SQL Server DB by calling function

            message.To.Add(new MailAddress(ToEmailIDToSendEmail)); //here you can directly use the TO mail

            message.From = new MailAddress("use the same address i.e. ur username that will be used below");

            message.Subject = "your email subject will be here";

            message.Body = smsg;

            message.IsBodyHtml = true; //always set this to true for html based mail

            SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();

            client.Port = 587; // I uses port 587 for gmail, replace this if you needed

            client.Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; //replace the host, i will be using gmail

            System.Net.NetworkCredential nc = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("senderemailid or say user name", "password-of-mail-id");

            client.EnableSsl = true;

            client.UseDefaultCredentials = false;

            client.Credentials = nc;

            client.Send(message);

        }

        catch

        {

            //do your catch job here;

        }

    }

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Hi,
You can match your code from the below:
Look into Bold section.

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage(); mail.To = "[e-mail]"; mail.From = "[e-mail]"; mail.Subject = "this is a test email."; mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html; mail.Body = "this is my test email body.<br><b>this part is in bold</b>"; SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "localhost";  //your real server goes here SmtpMail.Send( mail );

Did you used the mailformat option? mail format used class system
"System.Web.Mail.MailFormat"
Hope this will helpful for u. :)